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by Huilunsoittaja
Thu May 05, 2011 9:27 pm
Forum: Music Related
Topic: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?
Replies: 436
Views: 320590

Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Music from the Ballet Cinderella by Prokofiev, Neeme Jarvi and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. It don't get better than that, folks. :)
by Huilunsoittaja
Fri Apr 22, 2011 2:28 am
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Solo Endings?
Replies: 27
Views: 23650

Re: Solo Endings?

Griffes' Poem for Flute and Orchestra has the flute end the piece all alone.

Glazunov's Karelian Legend ends with a single flute mimicking a bird.
by Huilunsoittaja
Mon Apr 18, 2011 1:08 am
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Most Effective Introductions in Works
Replies: 5
Views: 4964

Re: Most Effective Introductions in Works

The introduction of the 1st mvmt. of Schubert's Symphony No. 8 has huge meaning. It's a dark statement of the main theme with the cellos/basses to set the black tone of the entire movement. Everything grows out of that one statement, as the higher strings come in softly with a new steady rhythm. It'...
by Huilunsoittaja
Mon Apr 26, 2010 10:56 am
Forum: Music Related
Topic: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?
Replies: 436
Views: 320590

Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Prokofiev- Romeo & Juliet, Full Score <3

Cleveland Orchestra, Lorin Maazel conducting
by Huilunsoittaja
Mon Apr 19, 2010 11:06 am
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Overrated, Overused, Overdone, underrated etc.
Replies: 97
Views: 174851

Re: Overrated, Overused, Overdone, underrated etc.

I'm open to talk... Good place to start. :) As for me, I have listened to almost his entire oeuvre, except for chamber music and some piano pieces. But it's hard to explain why I like Glazunov so much except I like his attitude toward his subject. Perhaps it's because I lacked prejudice to begin wi...
by Huilunsoittaja
Sat Apr 17, 2010 8:28 pm
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Overrated, Overused, Overdone, underrated etc.
Replies: 97
Views: 174851

Re: Overrated, Overused, Overdone, underrated etc.

[quote="perlnerd666" <flame>I HATE Glazunov. It's watery, unoriginal, mechanical, and wholly sterile (the Violin concerto is OK, I suppose)[/quote]

Au contraire! I see more than you do, much more. But it's no use talking about it.
by Huilunsoittaja
Sat Apr 17, 2010 2:37 pm
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Name Favorite Chord
Replies: 17
Views: 9283

Re: Name Favorite Chord

Anyone here heard of the Mystic chord, created by Scriabin?

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It's almost 3 different tritones stacked on each other, but the top interval is only a perfect 4th.
by Huilunsoittaja
Fri Apr 16, 2010 11:06 am
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Name Favorite Chord
Replies: 17
Views: 9283

Name Favorite Chord

I'm a new person here, but I think this could be an interesting subject. My favorite: (chord can go in any key, but I'll choose example) bdimM7. Exquisitely romantic, rather dissonant suspension that resolves to a fully diminished chord. Very often used in Russian romantic music. Spelled out example...
by Huilunsoittaja
Thu Apr 15, 2010 9:47 pm
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Overrated, Overused, Overdone, underrated etc.
Replies: 97
Views: 174851

Re: Overrated, Overused, Overdone, underrated etc.

Overrated: STRAVINSKY. Just because you're new doesn't mean you're improved. ;) Rossini and Tchaikovsky are WAY overused. Mahler is beginning to be overdone, not on the radio, but in Concert halls. Same with Shostakovich. Well, I joined this forum to stand up for something, and hopefully I'll be sup...
by Huilunsoittaja
Thu Apr 15, 2010 9:32 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Do you like to read?
Replies: 19
Views: 42808

Re: Do you like to read?

Yes!

Currently, I'm casually reading Anna Karenina by Tolstoy (that is, I pick it up every few weeks and read a tiny fraction). It is an amazing story. :)
by Huilunsoittaja
Thu Apr 15, 2010 9:21 pm
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Pieces that Grow Louder, then Subside
Replies: 16
Views: 8752

Re: Pieces that Grow Louder, then Subside

Children's March for Band by Grainger is like a big crescendo and decrescendo. Now that think of it, "In the Steppes of Central Asia" is similar (someone may have mentioned it before). What both have in common is they are depicting the coming and passing of people.